Word: midstream
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...March 2000. With his hard-nosed approach, Dimon instilled a much needed sense of urgency and accountability as soon as he arrived at Bank One, decorating his office with a trio of signs that read simply, NO WHINING. One of his first actions was to halt in midstream a major renovation of the elegant executive floor, and he quickly eliminated perks like cell phones and newspaper subscriptions. "Jamie doesn't care whom he pisses off," says a former Bank One executive. "As soon as he walks in the room, he is by his own estimation the smartest guy there...
...legendary John Marquand, the late senior tutor of Dudley House widely considered one of the finest advisors of all time. Fixing me with a steely glint softened by warmth and compassion, he said gently and with a hint of bemusement after the last of these decisions to withdraw midstream, “Chris, let’s agree: the next time you come back, it will be because you really want to, not just because it’s there.” He was right. I honored the letter and spirit of his advice by staying away another twenty...
...Nothing Ventured Retail investors, stung by sinking markets, have also turned away from venture capital. Individuals accounted for 11% of funds committed to venture capital in the U.S. in 2000, but only 9% in 2001. In addition, many investors defaulted midstream on their commitments, leaving some venture capital funds in the lurch...
...change horses in midstream," Mario Cuomo tells us. But Clinton and Gore were not the horse that brought us across the stream--the American people made the great economic current that pushed Clinton and Gore safely to shore. And now the latter brag at how they used the spurs and whip...
...speak the language of the sighted. That's part of the first great achievement of Helen Keller. She proved how language could liberate the blind and the deaf. She wrote, "Literature is my utopia. Here I am not disenfranchised." But how she struggled to master language. In her book Midstream, she wrote about how she was frustrated by the alphabet, by the language of the deaf, even with the speed with which her teacher spelled things out for her on her palm. She was impatient and hungry for words, and her teacher's scribbling on her hand would never...